Disinfector for automatically delivering disinfectant to charges of flush-water.



Patented Oct. {0,1899.

N. 634,5I5. J. L. WADE. NSINFECTOR FR AUTUMATICALLY DELIVERIHGDISINFEGTANTS TU CHARGES 0F Y F L U S H WAT ER.

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PATENT JAMES LUviAN WADE, on LoNDoN,'ENeLAND.

DISlNFECTOR FOR AUTOMATICALLY DELlVERlNG DlSlNl-"ECTANT TO CHARGES OFFLUSH-WAT'ER.

SPECIFICATION' forming partof Letters Patent No. 634,515, dated October10, 1899.

Application ined my so, 189e.

2b a/ZZ whom it may con/cern.:

Be it known thatl, JAMES Lut/'IAN WADE, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, residing at 2S Westlensington Gardens,

' London, England, have invented certain new of disinfectors containinga solid disinfectant more or less soluble in water and which each time atank or cistern is filled and emptied delivers a small quantity of thedissolved disinfectant to the water, and has for its object to provide adisinfectcr that when charged ready for use is applied by simply placingit inside the tank or cistern, in which it should be more or lesscompletely immersed when the tank or cistern is full. This disinfectorcan thus also be easily removed for recharging or other purposes. Thedisinfector is applicable more particularly to flushing cisterns,water-carts, and the like.

This invention consists in a reservoir for containing the soliddisinfectant, an air-tube outside the reservoir and whose upper endcommunicates with the top of the vessel and whose other end terminatesabove the bottom of the reservoir, but external to the reservoir, and asmall water-inlet and disinfectantfemission tube extending a; shortdistance inward from the top of the vessel.

In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Figure 1 is asectional elevation of a disinfector constructed according to thisinvention, and Fig. 2 shows a slight modification.. p v

The reservoir c, is provided with an air or n-shaped pipe' having itsshorter leg b con- As shown, there is a flange c on the lower end of theleg b to retain the hollow screw d on the leg. This screw d screws intoa nut e, soldered on the reservoir a and having an internal flange Theflange c on the leg b is thus forced against the internal angef andmakes a tight .g being serai No. 687,319. (no man.)

an intermediate leather or other washer preferably provided. By thisarrangement the pipe can readily be removed for the insertion of freshdisinfectant through the nut e, The longer leg h of the air or n pipeextends downward outside the reservoir to nearly the bottom. Thereservoir a is also provided with a small pipe t', extending about oneinch downward from the top.

The disinfectant is inserted into the reservoir d, as above described,through the nut c and the air or n pipe firmly secured in position. Thewhole apparatusl is then placed in the lushing-cistern and becomesfilled with water up to the level of the lower end of the small pipe t',as shown, and the water in the apparatus becomes saturated with thedisinfectant.

During the flushing operation as the flushing-cistern empties the watercontained in the joint,

`lower part of the leg h falls and thus sucks water into the reservoir athrough the pipe 'L'.

As the'cistern is again lled the water rises up the leg h andforees outthrough the small tube 'i all'the water above the lower end of 'thesmall pipe that was drawn in. at the previous flushing operation intothe flushingcistermand as this water'is saturated with the disinfectantthe charge of ushing-water is rendered disinfectant for the nextilushing operation.

The tube t h may be completely immersed or it may extend out of thewater of the cistern.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the longer leg h is made adjustable,so that the quantity of disinfectant delivered to the charge of watercan be varied. It will readily'be seen that the reservoir o. can be madeof any shape to suit the tank or cistern to which itis applied. Y

The upper end of the tube 'L' may terminate anywhere below the level ofthewater in the lushing-cistern whenfull and its lower'end must be belowthe termination of the lower end of the leg b. The other legh mustterminate below the lower end of the tube 'L'.

What I claim,- and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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A disinfector consisting of a disinfectantreservoir, a small water-inletand disinfectant-emission tube whose lower end extends downward into theresorvoir, an aintube hav- In testimony whereof I have afxed my sigingits upper end connected to the reservoir nature in presence of twowitnesses.

and terminating above the lower end of the .v inlet and emission tubeand having its lower 4 JAMES LUVIAN ADE' end terminating external to thereservoir and Nitnessesz below the lower end of the inlet and ems- JOHNW. MACKENZIE,

sion tube. l ALBERT -J ONES.

